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  • very informative, i learned a lot just now, you sound good dude......and nice tone.

  • This is very cool, communicated the lesson well and really invaluable info. Thanks! Greetings from Australia!

  • what bass combo do u use it sounds nice... and u good 2...thx for that

  • thanks a million

  • This was one of the best Gospel instructional videos I've seen in regards to application (apply). The key and placement? Oops The most important thing is he played it correctly. This brother Touch all the importanat points. KNOW THE SONG!!!!!! Wonderful insight my brother!!!! Stay blessed in the Lord.

  • hey toofpick thanks for serving our country as well as giving us these lessons. You are good!!! I've been playing now for about 3 yrs and i'm familiar with some of my scales but i never had a clue how to put these licks in until this video. May GOD continue to smile on you brother..

  • Great video

    

  • completely and utterly amazing... helped me alot. would you consider doing a video on arpeggios??

  • My brother Toofpick i have to say thank you once again. I tried you're method on Sabbath in church while playing bass for praise and worship and it needs a little practice on my part..lol.. but sounded all in all quite good. Can't wait to Sabbath comes around again for me to glorify God once more with this instrument. Please keep more tutorials coming because man, you're a good teacher.

    Thanks again and God's richest blessings

  • Thanks bro and God's many blessings, you make playing bass sound so good as will as provide excellent tutorials. Please keep more coming as i'm learning to play bass, gospel style and need all the help i can get. Thanks and God's Richest Blessings

  • thx bro that help me alot

  • im a beginner at bass (16 years old) but i know quite a bit of music theory from playing trumpet for four years. Im just wondering how many scales there are or how many i should learn for now.

  • @9winters5 Man there are over 50 diff scales not counting modes. I dont even know all of them well lol! A good way is to learn how to construct the scales (whole steps and half steps) so no matter what key you will know the pattern/scale type. Hope that helps!

  • @toofpick151 thx, now it doesnt seem so hard. i know the major scale pattern but the types of scales. ill learn them in time

  • @9winters5 There is music composed with scales of only five notes (pentatonic), six notes (whole tone), eight notes (octatonic) and all twelve (atonal, tone rows, dodecaphonic). Then there are scales that composers create for a particular piece (usually based on a tone row). Not to mention micro-tones found in eastern music, which increase the number of notes to be used in a scale. There is a whole big world of music out there, I hope you explore it all.

  • @9winters5 There are twelve notes in the western system, and seven common modes. The are based off of greek terms and they are called Ionian (Major), Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian (Minor), and Locrian. This means there are 84 scales if you do not include enharmonic equivalents. And these are only the scales composed of seven notes.

  • this helped soo much mannn! thanks im a girl and im learning! can't wait to do all these tricks =)

  • bro u helped on this one.i like the concept.u cant keep playing scales and not use it n songs.learned something new today!

  • coool bass player

  • hey man hopefully we could shed via skype or something... i have a lot of learning to do

  • Bro your nice... but i just had to make a correction. In the key of Eb minor Eb is actually the VI (6) Ab would be the II (2) and Bb would be the III (3). The actual I (1) is F#. That being said Most Major runs you can do in the key of F# Major you can also do them also do them in Eb minor because Eb minor is the relative minor of F# . Just like F# is the relative Major to Eb. Keep playing tho man it sounds NICE!

  • @Yourboysnacks Thanks bro. With all due respect, youre mixing two diff scale names. In the key of "Eb minor", Eb is the actual I. In "F# major", it would be the 6th as youve stated, and technically D#. The song starts on Eb and if you listen to it all the way through, ends on the 5th of Eb, Bb. your theory on runs is correct though. Just dont want to confuse any beginners. Respect.

  • @toofpick151 wats the name of this song??

  • @tubasrule2012 Its called "You Can" Off Lisa McClendon's House of Blues album.

  • @Yourboysnacks I'm sorry for putting this so bluntly, but you're wrong. If he plays the song in Eb minor then the song is in Eb minor, not in F# major. Also, in the relative major, the degrees (VI, II, and III, etc.) are NOT the same as the scale degrees in the relative minor. The only things relating the minor and major is the key signature. The Eb minor scale goes Eb, F, Gb, Ab, Bb, Cb, Db. The F# Major scale goes F#, G#, A#, B, C#, D#, E#. (continued)

  • @Yourboysnacks (continued) As you can see, those scale degrees do NOT match up, since they don't start on the same note. They have the same notes in them, but the scale degrees aren't the same. Hope that helps clear it up a little.

  • @Yourboysnacks Actually, I guess a better and more concise explanation is that relative minors and majors are NOT interchangeable. If he plays it in Eb minor, then its in Eb minor.

  • @Yourboysnacks In the key of Eb minor, Eb is the tonic, or the i not the VI. Ab is the subdominant or the iv/IV and Bb is the dominant/v/V. The relative Major of Eb Minor is Gb Major. They share the same key signature, but start on different notes (Eb and Gb respectively). cont.

  • @Yourboysnacks You use different sets of Roman Numerals to identify these scales, always starting on their respective tonics. The relative Major of D# Minor is F# Major. Eb Minor and D# Minor are enharmonic equivalents, meaning they have the same sounds but two different names.

  • thanks for that fam...it was really helpful.

  • bro God bless you, eveything u said at the start of video was to me bro that help so much

  • Thanks Dizzee Rascal! Great lesson

  • Hey man you are tight! Keep up the good work and giving encouragement and lessons for the up and coming bass players! But i want to ask what is a good way to learn to chord or find the notes for chords?

  • thank you brother that really blessed me man i know those scales but had troble placing them i want more its simple and easy to understand

  • woww u a re beasty

  • my friend always says, o keep your 4 string bass, he is ignorant a true bassist knows theres a diference, super jammingggggggg of course a 4 string is super orgasmic but 5 string, i mean you can jump from music styles, 6 is kind of alot but still nice

  • very nice man

  • My man that was a cool lesson,you should do more,i like the way you teach,thank you so much!

  • you make more since than anyone that came at me trying to teach wow i can really get busy

  • every time i watch him he has a different bass

  • I understand the scales but how do u know where to put a lick or something... or like fill ins??

  • I appreciate you taking the time to show us a lil somthin!

  • Could you do one more advanced song too?

  • such a good teacher..

  • Man. I really appreciate this video. It cleared a long mental struggle I've had with this kind of stuff.

  • what scales did you use in this song? any scale would fit in a song? thank you sir

  • nice bass!! yamaha???

  • @geofbass Yep! A 90's TRB6.

  • what is the name of the song??? sounds really cool

  • @Carlosbassman9886 its called "You Can" by Lisa McClendon. Thanks!

  • what does the lick at 4:10 consist of? is that a chord or a tritone?

  • @GroovinwhittU As far as I can see, it's the tonic with a raised fifth, which forms the submediant (also called the parallel), in this case the Cb major. But since the key is Eb minor, and the actual chord is Eb minor, you can call it

    a Cb/Eb. If I'm wrong please correct me, but I don't think I am.

  • Cheers man, this really helped me out. Needed help on what to play when jamming with my band and this gave me a good idea. I guess all those boring scales I had to learn weren't so useless after all :D

  • That was good for me thx bro.

  • whats this song?

  • And thanks for your service.

  • Thanks for all your videos Bro'. Great info!

  • Wow. Literally Everything you said and demonstrated in this video helped me. As far as chops, i'm real close to what you displayed. Putting it all together as musical and soulful as possible is the challenge but its gotten easier with time... Best part of this video is the words of encouragement. Thanks a lot and God Bless.

  • soundz great dude.. u got a nice touch...

  • awesome stuff....

  • i would like to know the scales used in this video

  • @kingjoe345 Honestly 95% of it is a Eb minor scale

  • yow i would like to know the scales u used in this vid man

  • I would love a tutorial on that vibrato sort of move he does at 3:40. What is that even called?

  • @thislisa thank you for giving me an idea for another tutorial!

  • @toofpick151 Yay! I look forward to it.

  • @thislisa I'm not really sure, but I would like to call it the "sliding tremolo", because that's what it looks like to me.

  • @thislisa It's a trill. It's a sweet technique for soul music. I think vibrato is such an underrated technique for bass.

  • @aremslie Thank you for a word to put to it!!!!

  • @thislisa No problem! One of our responsibilities as musicians is to pass our knowledge to other players. I wouldn't know anything without the assistance of other players.

  • @aremslie You are so right and I really appreciate it. Since I have the word "trill" I was able to use that to find more vids on it and lines that use technique, to help me totally incorporate it.

  • man ive been tryna figure out how to play that chord man thanks for the vid

  • awesome brother. Thanks loads

  • Yamaha and SWR. Cool! Nicely explained too. Peace.

  • You are great, really helpful!

  • you are the most helpful bassist on the internet THANKS =]

  • nice bassline!i hope you can teach us more on how to use the modes....

  • Can anybody tell me about a tutorial or make one on what he does at 4:09

  • Yo what's your email addy... wanna halla atcha

  • Hey my brother God bless you are killin thanks i am a 48 yr. old bass player starting over again, you explain things excellently, with focus,control and thoroughness, thanks again

  • nice bass man and it sounss good.I started out with a 4 string then I got a 5 string but the strings on my 4 are futher apart than my 5 string bass so I wanted to know if the strings on your 6 were futher apart than your 5 string ?

  • This is a cool vid bro, unfortunately i don't know scales ,arpeggios or anything like that! Most times i just try to sounding like the bass player on the track.

  • Thanks bro for sharing this nugget of info..God bless! Keep it baSSic

  • Thanks alot brother... I already knew most of this but imma steal that chord form you... that was nice. Have a blessed day and keep motivating bass players!

  • great advice:) you are a good teacher:)

  • awesome job on this post bruh. ive been playing for some time now, and felt like i hit a wall which seemed to keep me from finding my own style. u helped a lot....

  • good stuff.

  • Thank you.

  • dude nice thank you for this video it was a big help try to teach the arpegio. it looks pretty simple.

    but show a few more things to help point me in the right direction

  • I like that riff doc 3:20

  • Thanks for taking the time to do this..

    You have a real humble spirit my brother.

    May God continue to bless you everyday.

    P.s. that Yamaha is lookin' too fresh!!

  • Very well done, and down to earth. I"m calling you friend before you know it!

  • What you said is the truth - as professional bass player, instructor and musician Carol Kaye stated - "as a bass player we learn chord patterns - because we support the sound of each chord. Chord tones are the heart of the bassline - other notes derived from scales or chromatic notes serve to complement and embellish the chord tones. Therefore, it is important to study chord tones."

  • u sound like terrence howard! :)

  • that was tight what song was that and by who

  • @bigbutch87 Lisa Mclendon "You Can" off the "Live from the House of Blues" Album. Thanks bro!

  • thank's my man,i needed that,,

  • that's real nice bro!!! i would have never thought of doing that....

  • that's what's up bro, we need encouraging bass players like yourself out here to lift us up and coming bass players up. thanks for your postings, but most of all thank you for teaching and for the encouragement. peace and God Bless. B

  • @brandonbigb Bless you brotha! Noone ever wanted to teach me anything coming up, so I try to share all I know now. God bless!

  • I really enjoy ur vids brotha!! Keep em coming!

  • Just what I needed as a beginner, I know my scales and all but didn't know how to apply them, this video really helps a lot. Thanks bro.....

  • thanks bro !!!

  • man, God bless ya. keep uploading tem vids man.

  • that is a sick yamaha TRB6...and thanx for the help

  • Thanks Pic! 

    This really makes sense.

    Keep em comin Bruh!

    Oh and I'm feel da Royal Blue 6-string.

    AEA

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